Auction 72
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Mar 16, 2017
Brooklyn, NY, United States
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LOT 181:
MEIR SIMCHAH HAKOHEN OF DVINSK.
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Estimated price :
$
500 - $700
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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Meshech Chochmah [novellae to the Torah].
FIRST EDITION. pp. 434. Previous owner's marks. Contemporary boards, spine taped. 4to.
E. Levin, Riga: 1927.
R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843-1926) was one of the foremost Rabbinic leaders of the pre-War generation. He was known as the "Ohr Same'ach" after his Halachic magnum opus, a penetrating study on the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides. His Meshech Chochmah was published posthumously by R. Menachem Mendel Zak and has since been republished many times to great acclaim.
See p. 245 for the eerie prediction: "There will come a time when the Jewish nation will think that Berlin is (their) Jerusalem, (at which point) a raging storm will destroy them."
